Batman and Spawn Cross Over for the First Time in Decades

It’s a typical joke that Warner Bros. will put Batman in principally something, be it Fortnite, exhibits for toddlers, or podcasts. Crossing over and moving into different mediums or different folks’s enterprise a part of the Dark Knight’s entire Thing, and some of the common crossovers of the bunch was a pair of 1994 one-shots— Spawn/Batman from Frank Miller and Spawn creator Todd MacFarlane, and Batman/Spawn: War Devils by Alan Grant, Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, and Klaus Janson. And since crossovers are all the fad nowadays, the 2 are coming again collectively to do all of it once more.

Batman/Spawn was introduced again iin the summer season, however with the e-book’s December launch drawing nearer, DC’s put out an animated trailer to hype up the one-shot. Written by MacFarlane and drawn by recurring Batman artist Greg Capullo, the story kicks off when the Court of Owls name on Spawn to do what they’ll’t and at last kill Batman. While it doesn’t look like in the identical continuity as these earlier crossovers, it seemingly gained’t work out within the Owls’ favor regardless.

Spawn himself has been no stranger to crossovers, with the latest being his look in NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat 11, after MacFarlane and NetherRealm beforehand tried to get him into prior video games. The Image character additionally briefly confirmed up in Ready Player One’s movie adaptation in 2018, and who can neglect when Spawn was a visitor character in Soul Calibur II all the best way again in 2002? Maybe he’ll present up in Fortnite as soon as his film really will get to trying prefer it’ll see launch.

Batman/Spawn will launch on December 13. If the trailer has you feeling nostalgic, each Spawn/Batman and War Devils shall be reprinted in a single Collected Edition bundle on November 15.

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